Sharp County record., 1887-07-07

| ''DaCh Win you, you llIblo flIlalu, W VhO
| place you come FROM"
But that night the boy says: "God help
me, can not go back"
And quicker than ever mother flew at
the cry of child's pain, the Lord re-
spends from the heavens: courage, poor
| boy, courage"
His bright face gets him position.
After awhile he is second clerk. Years
pass on, and he is fist clerk. Years
pass on. The glory of young manhood is
on him. He comes into the firm. He
goes on from one business success to
another. He has achieved great
fortune. He is the friend of the Church
of God, the friend Of all good institu-
tions, and one day he stands talking to
the Board of Trade, or to the Chamber Of
Commerce.
People say: "Do you know what that
isl Why, that is merchant prince, and
he was born on Elm street."
But God says in regard to him some
thing better than that.
These are they that came out Of great tribu-
lation, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood Of the Lamb.
o. for some one to write the history OF
by heroes and girl heroines who have
triumphed over want and starvation, and
filth and ragsi Yea, the record has al
ready been made-made by the hand OF
God; and when these shall come at last
with songs and rejoicing, 1t will take q
very broad banner to hold the names OF
all the battle-fie, on which they got the
victory.
Some years ago a roughly clad, ragged
boy came into my brothers. office in New
York and said
"Mr. Talmage, lend me five dollars"
Ny brother said: "Who are you"
The boy replied: ~ am nobody. Lend
me five dollars"
"What do you want to do with five dol
lars2"
"Well," the boy replied, "my mother is
sick and poor, and want to go into the
newspaper business, and 1 shall get
home for her, and will paw you back"
My brother gave him five dollars, OF
course never expecting to see it again;
but he said:
"When will you pay it?"
The boy said: ~ will pay it in six
months, SIR"
Time went by, and one day lad came
into my brothers. office, and said:
'There's your five dollars"
"What do you mean? What five dol
larsl" nqur ed my brother.
"Don't you remember that boy came
in here six months ago and wanted to
borrow five dollars to go into the news
paper businessp'
10, yes, remem ber; are you the ladW
"Yes," he replied, ~ have got along
nicely. l have got a nice home for nv
mother (she is sick YETI, and am as
well clothed as you are, and there's your
five dollars"
o, was he not worth saving! Why,
that lad is worth fifty such boys as have
sometimes seen moving in elegant cir
cles never put to any use for God or man.
Worth savingi I go farther than that,
and tell you they are not only worth saw
ing but they are being saved. One OF
these lads picked up from our streets,
sent West by benevolent society, wrote
East, saying:
81 am getting along first rate. I am on
probation in the Methodist Church.
shall be entered as member the first of
next month. l now teach a Sunday
school class Of eleven boys. I get along
first rate with it. This is a splendid
country to make living in. If the boys
running around the streets with black
ing box on their shoulder, or bundle OF
| papers under their arms, only knew what
high old times we boys have out here,
| they wouldn't hesitate about coming
West. but come the first chance they got"
50 some by one humane and Christian
visitation, and some by another, are being
rescued. In one reform school, through
which 1000 of the little ones passed. l, 995
turned out well. In other words, only five
of the two thousand turned out badly.
There are thousands of them who
through Christian societies, have beer
transpl intel to beautiful homes all over
| this land, and there are many who
through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, have already won the crown.
A little girl was foun1 in The streets OF
| Baltimore and taken into one OF the re-
| form societies, and they said to her:
"What is your namep She raid: "My
name is Mary"
"What is your other nameT Phe said :;
| II don't know"
| So they took her into the reform society,"
| and as they did not know her last name
they always called her 'Mary Lost" since
she had been picked up out of the street
But she grew on, and after awhile the
Holy Spirit came to her heart and she
| became a Christian child, and she changed
her name; and when anybody asked her
what her name was she said:
| "It used to be Mary Lost, butnow, since
| have become a Christian, it Is Mary
| Found"
| For this vast multitude are we willing
| to 90 forth from this mornings service
| and see what we can do, employing all
the agencies l have spoken Of for
| the rectifcation of the poisone |
fountainsl We live in beautiful
| city. The lines have fallen to US in pleas.
ant places, and we have a goodly her.
itage; and any man who does not like a
residence in Brooklyn must be most un.
comfortable and unreas enable man. But,
nv friends, the material prosperity Of a
city is not its chief glory There may be
fine houses and beautiful streets, and that
all be the garniture of a sepulcher. Some
of the most prosperous cities Of the word
have gone down, not one stone left upon
another. But city may be in ruins
long before a tower has fallen, or
a column has crumbled, or tomb
has been defaced. When in a city the
| churches of God are full Of cold formali-
ties and inanim ate religion; when the
houses of commerce are the abode of